A Lancashire grandmother is to appear in a Preston court tomorrow to defend a £55,000 claim pressed by fracking company Cuadrilla and its CEO Francis Egan for the costs of an eviction that never even took place, writes Oliver Tickell. Now a campaign calling on Cuadrilla to drop its un...

EDF's biggest problem is the cost of producing power from these ageing power stations is greater than the wholesale price, so everything they sell is at a loss. It is impossible to see how they can ever make a profit. Then they still have to decommission. The liabilities of Électricit...

The CBD is the premier international treaty for protecting biodiversity and life on earth from new threats. It is within its mandate to adopt this moratorium, and countries that are party to it must act now to avoid serious or irreversible harm. International conservation and environm...

Al available science indicates that badgers have little if anything to do with bovine TB in cattle, writes Lesley Docksey. This is reflected in Wales's consultation on its 'refreshed TB Eradication Programme'. We must hope that Northern Ireland's bTB Eradication Strategy will be equal...

It's now clear what place government ministers and senior officials want for the UK in a post-Brexit world, writes Mark Curtis - and it's not pretty! A new era of corporate 'free trade' colonialism looms, spearheaded by aid spending, with ramped-up arms exports to the world's most cor...

Over the past 60 years, agriculture has changed more than it did during the previous 12,000. And much of that change has come about due to the so-called 'green revolution', which has entailed soaking crops with petrochemicals. A peer-reviewed study published last year in the British J...

We flatly reject this road. We indigenous people won't benefit from it, only the loggers, miners, oil companies and narcotraffickers. It threatens the lives of our isolated relatives. It will destroy our animals and plants. A new 'death road' is set to cut in two the land of several u...

Climate change is only one of many pressing environmental issues that threaten our future. Agroecology also addresses biodiversity loss, soil degradation, pollution of our rivers and oceans, while creating huge numbers of jobs and building food security. Agriculture was one key focus ...